A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A RANDOM WALK
DOWN WALL STREET
The Time-Tested Strategy for
Successful Investing
BURTON G. MALKIEL
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
New York ? London
FOR NANCY AND PIPER
CONTENTS
Preface
Part One
STOCKS AND THEIR VALUE
1. FIRM FOUNDATIONS AND CASTLES IN THE AIR
What Is a Random Walk?
Investing as a Way of Life Today
Investing in Theory
The Firm-Foundation Theory
The Castle-in-the-Air Theory
How the Random Walk Is to Be Conducted
2. THE MADNESS OF CROWDS
The Tulip-Bulb Craze
The South Sea Bubble
Wall Street Lays an Egg
An Afterword
3. SPECULATIVE BUBBLES FROM THE SIXTIES INTO THE NINETIES
The Sanity of Institutions
The Soaring Sixties
The New ¡°New Era¡±: The Growth-Stock/New-Issue Craze
Synergy Generates Energy: The Conglomerate Boom
Performance Comes to the Market: The Bubble in Concept Stocks
The Nifty Fifty
The Roaring Eighties
The Return of New Issues
Concepts Conquer Again: The Biotechnology Bubble
ZZZZ Best Bubble of All
What Does It All Mean?
The Japanese Yen for Land and Stocks
4. THE EXPLOSIVE BUBBLES OF THE EARLY 2000s
The Internet Bubble
A Broad-Scale High-Tech Bubble
Yet Another New-Issue Craze
Security Analysts $peak Up
New Valuation Metrics
The Writes of the Media
Fraud Slithers In and Strangles the Market
Should We Have Known the Dangers?
The U.S. Housing Bubble and Crash of the Early 2000s
The New System of Banking
Looser Lending Standards
The Housing Bubble
Bubbles and Economic Activity
Does This Mean That Markets Are Inefficient?
Part Two
HOW THE PROS PLAY THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN
5. TECHNICAL AND FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS
Technical versus Fundamental Analysis
What Can Charts Tell You?
The Rationale for the Charting Method
Why Might Charting Fail to Work?
From Chartist to Technician
The Technique of Fundamental Analysis
Three Important Caveats
Why Might Fundamental Analysis Fail to Work?
Using Fundamental and Technical Analysis Together
6. TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND THE RANDOM-WALK THEORY
Holes in Their Shoes and Ambiguity in Their Forecasts
Is There Momentum in the Stock Market?
Just What Exactly Is a Random Walk?
Some More Elaborate Technical Systems
The Filter System
The Dow Theory
The Relative-Strength System
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